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Episode 124: Sat in a Cage
- This week in SF history [doc link]
- 1966 September 9: Gemini 11 delayed due to pinhole leak in 1st stage of Titan II rocket. (nytimes.com) (drewexmachina.com)
- Spaceflight news
- IRNSS 1H Navigation Sat gets stuck in its fairing. (spaceflightnow.com)
- Intelsat-33e confirmed to lose about 3.5 years of life due to two separate propulsion issues. (spacenews.com) (https://www.spaceintelreport.com/intelsat-heres-status-33e-satellite/)
- Short & Sweet
- SNC DreamChaser returns to captive carry testing nasaspaceflight.com
- Falcon Heavy completes core static fire test. (theverge.com)
- A noteworthy Soyuz return. (spaceflightnow.com)
- JSC Mission Essential Personnel keep at it during Harvey (theverge.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- Ben Hallert via email: ACES needed to be orange because in an abort, the astronauts needed to bail out into the ocean. Dragons and Starliner aborts, you stay in the capsule. If you are floating in the water in your suit something else went HUGELY wrong. That's why Boeing suit can be blue too.
- Btw re: the conversation about style meaning compromises: Garrett Reisman (shuttle astronaut) was testing the Dragonrider suits in ocean egress testing and said it was straight up better than ACES. Seems persuasive to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- “This suit is much better than the one I wore in the Shuttle. Lots of great innovations. I wore one today for our post-splashdown safety test” (https://twitter.com/astro_g_dogg)
- Ben Hallert via email: ACES needed to be orange because in an abort, the astronauts needed to bail out into the ocean. Dragons and Starliner aborts, you stay in the capsule. If you are floating in the water in your suit something else went HUGELY wrong. That's why Boeing suit can be blue too.